Job Opportunities at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Job Summary

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Startup EMEA team is seeking early career professionals, and advanced career professionals with limited technical experience interested in jump-starting a career as a Startup Associate Solutions Architect.
• During the first 3 months you will be in accelerated workforce development program, shadowing AWS experts, being coached, preparing to become an AWS Associate Certified Solutions Architect and receiving on-the-job training to help you succeed in your new role.
• As a Startup Associate Solutions Architect, you’ll help Startups successfully implement cloud technologies.
• You’ll solve complex, technical challenges so your customers can focus on their business.
• This includes using your knowledge to craft scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures.
• You’ll drive technical solutions discussions, diving deep into the details with customer teams.
• Building relationships to understand our startups is key.
• As a trusted technical advisor, you’ll use your interpersonal skills to influence a variety of stakeholders from technical teams to executives.
• You’ll help ensure their short-term technology decisions are aligned with their long-term goals.
• Speeding up the adoption of our services will be part of your day to day.

Basic Qualifications

• A Degree in Computer Science / Engineering / Mathematics / Technology / Related Science / Technical field or equivalent training, certifications, and/or experience.
• Experience with Networking fundamentals including Security, Storage or Databases (Relational and/or NoSQL), Operating Systems (Unix, Linux, and/or Windows)
• Experience with one or more of the following domains: systems administration (Linux/Window), network administration (DNS, IPsec, BGP, VPN, Load Balancing), or programming (Node.JS, Java, Ruby, C#, Python, or PHP).
• Written and verbal communication skills and ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions to both large and small audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.
• Fluent proficiency in English.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience around implementing cloud-based technology solutions.
• Startup work experience is a plus.

Inclusive Team Culture:

• Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally.
• We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences.
• Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work / Life Harmony:

• Our team puts a high value on work-life harmony. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life.
• We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfilment AND WE encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.Mentorship & Career Growth
• Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.
• Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded Solutions Architect and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

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Job Summary

• Do you love getting hands-on with technology and sharing your enthusiasm for cloud computing with the wider tech community?
• The Developer Advocate for Amazon Web Services will join a creative, experienced and energetic organization that is responsible for helping to drive the development and adoption of AWS services.
• In this role, you’ll combine your technical skills, passion and enthusiasm with your unmatched creativity to generate grass-roots attention and support for AWS among key industry innovators and technologists in Nigeria and West Africa, as well as globally.
• Ideally, you’re someone who comes from a software and/or infrastructure background, but has an unmet need to be on stage guiding the broader industry towards a technology you firmly believe in.
• You have immediate credibility with Startups, Developers, Architects, IT Managers and/or CIOs. You love to share your passion with others and exhibit good judgment in selecting strategic opportunities to do so.
• You don’t just want to be part of an industry movement, you want to be out front leading it.

Key Capabilities

• As a Builder, you will dive deep to deliver audience-focused technical presentations, and to curate and build actionable technical content. You'll keep your technical skills updated constantly, always maintaining a baseline understanding of the latest core AWS services, and then adding breadth and depth as required by their specialty or audience needs.
• As a Strategist, you'll keep the "big picture" in mind and always look for opportunities to maximize customer value, constantly driving efficiencies on processes and mechanisms.
• As a Teacher, you'll provide technical guidance for Builders to be successful with the cloud, simplifying the complex and tailoring your message to the needs of the audience.
• As an Ambassador, you'll build long-term relationships with Builders and their communities, feeding back insights to help shape AWS go-to-market strategy, programs and products. You'll also identify and develop external AWS advocates, helping to scale our programs.
• As an Influencer, you'll use your unique personality and authentic content to help attract Builders to AWS and keep them engaged and inspired to Build.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Gaining industry recognition and credibility as a regular attendee and speaker at AWS and third party technology conferences, shows and press events.
• Curating, developing and delivering compelling presentations, sample solutions, and discussions to help drive awareness and adoption of AWS services.
• Collaborating with internal teams to define program initiatives for technical audiences, market positioning, gathering customer feedback, and nurturing and growing technical communities.
• Creating and maintaining relevant content (demos, videos, blogs, screencasts, books, and other mediums), covering AWS services along with emerging technologies and industry developments.
• Maintaining a strong and credible presence in social media channels relevant to technical audiences.
• Working with your worldwide counterparts to share best practices and help build a best-in-the-industry developer relations organization.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on technical experience with cloud computing infrastructure, application development platforms and popular programming languages, operations and/or security
• 2+ years in a customer facing role or a role which involved public speaking
• Superior oral and written communication skills in English
• Outstanding public speaking, content creation, and presentation skills (in person and online), and experience working with technical communities.
• Willingness to travel and ability to work autonomously
• Able to work in a diverse team.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Significant experience in IT Infrastructure and/or software development, with special emphasis in areas of Compute, Storage, Databases, Networking, Application Services, Machine Learning, Big Data and/or distributed computing
• Practical experience in cloud computing, architecture, systems or application design, development or operations. Existing knowledge of the AWS platform a bonus.
• Working knowledge and experience with social/online marketing coupled with prior experience in product definition, bring-to-market strategies and/or setting an industry standard.
• A history of successful speaking engagements, online content creation, industry influence, and/or recognition in technology publications is preferred.
• Success in nurturing, engaging with, and growing large technical communities
• While not a requirement, oral and written communication skills in French are an added value.